‘Normal game action’ – resulting in a player not even able to feel his legs?

Doctors say if Neymar’s injury would have been one inch higher, he’d have been paralysed for life.

If this is ‘normal’ game action, it’s high time we re-examined normal games.

Or FIFA did.

Yet, FIFA’s amazingly quiet.

FIFA acted faster after Luis Suarez’s bite, awarding the Uruguayan striker such tough punishment – banned for six months from playing, even entering a stadium – that the object of his chewy attentions, Italian defender Chiellini, felt this was excessive.

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Srijana Mitra Das holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University, UK. She works on the Times of India's Editorial Page where she writes on political and cultural topics and manages the Q&A interview section. She is keenly interested in Bollywood cinema, literature, music (classical piano, rock and jazz), cuisine, consumption and lifestyles – and the oft-overlooked ties these have with deeper economic movements, wider political change.
So, if you want to know what women buying teetering high heels or domination-based erotica says about feminism, ask the Doctor.
Similarly, if you want to know how the pasta dishes you can order in Delhi today reflects how reforms have unrolled, you’re in the right place.
A strong believer in youth having its say, Srijana’s writing is humourous, ironic and for the intellectually-endowed – while being easy on the eye.

Srijana Mitra Das holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University, UK. She works on the Times of India's Editorial Page where she writes on pol. . .